We work across disciplines—the humanities, social sciences, computer, and data sciences—to research and create critical and creative responses to our data-filled world.
Led by Dr. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University
🌐 digitaldemocracies.org
Mercurial design academic—long-time em dash fan.
We design policy and services that help the American public build better lives. Nonprofit and nonpartisan. Visit us at www.publicpolicylab.org.
A new policy studio dedicated to unleashing Canada's true potential.
Our name stands for: Securing Homegrown Innovation, Economic Leadership, and Defence.
Our newsletter: The National Interest
Our website: https://canadianshieldinstitute.ca
A professional association and community for technologists that serve the public good.
https://www.publicgood.tech/
Associate Professor of Law | UBC Sauder Distinguished Fellow, Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics | Chair, Canada Climate Law Initiative | Co-Director, UBC Centre for Climate Justice #corpgov #climate #sustainability
Assistant Professor of Sustainable Business Mgmt
@forestry.ubc.ca. Interested in tech/business/environment. Here rarely. Outside often.
Historian of math, computing, and the mind. Assistant Prof. of Communication at SFU. Co-editor of Abstractions and Embodiments. PhD from Harvard. Likes cats, writes pysanky eggs, working on a comic book about AI ✨
Law Professor, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa
www.michaelgeist.ca
Law Bytes Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5iDUCcDrkzGai0OdTgoucv
http://mgeist.substack.com
CBC's At Issue videos feed // Maintained by @sikander.bsky.social ... not affiliated with CBC, just a fan
I help people build things that realize their purpose. Partner at Digital Public.
Independent BC-based journalism swimming against the current. Paywall-free since 2003. support.thetyee.ca
Nêhiyaw-Métis woman-owned bookstore on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səlilwətaɬ territory (YVR). BC Green Business Certified; Rick Hansen Certified; Voted 2023 & 2025 Best Bookstore (Georgia Straight)🥇
https://linktr.ee/MassyBooks
Making and mending networks and knowledge. Working and thinking at wrecka.ge, building at Unbreaking.org.
Cofounded the Covid Tracking Project, previously OpenNews, old web nonsense.
The official account of The Paikin Podcast.
Links: https://linktr.ee/thepaikinpodcast
Email us at: thepaikinpodcast@gmail.com
https://danmcquillan.org/
I write about building a fairer and more inclusive society and innovation's role in doing that on the Deep Dives newsletter: https://orbitpolicy.substack.com/. Founder & Principal, Orbit Policy. Toronto via the UK.
How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
Director, Research & Innovation, Actua.
Co-Director, Shift Insights.
Senior Fellow, Munk School.
Recovering political philosopher.
MIT PhD. Innovation. Science policy. Ethics. Skills. Space. JAWS. Running. Chronic napping. 🇨🇦
www.shiftinsights.ca
https://stevepaikin.com
Host, "The Paikin Podcast"
Co-host, the "#onpoli podcast"
Columnist, http://TVO.org
Columnist, Toronto Star
Host, TVO Today Live
Host, Ontario Chronicle
Author of 9 books.
Pathologies: Leafs, Red Sox, Ticats.
Economist.
Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers
https://atkinsonfoundation.ca/atkinson-fellows/atkinson-fellow-on-the-future-of-workers/
Contributing Columnist for the Toronto Star https://www.thestar.com/
Mostly #cdnecon #CareEconomy #Inequality
An Urban Planner taking the World on one bite at a time.
Director, SFU City Program + Assoc Prof of Professional Practice, Urban Studies
My thoughts are my own.
IG: publicyan | Twitter: ayan604
https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/about/city-program
Situationist Cybernetics. Researching AI & Culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute, Rome). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, our work aims to unify technical and moral knowledge to serve the goals of sustainable, just & ethical innovation.
Find us here: https://www.technomoralfutures.uk/
Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue at Northwestern University - Civics of Technology Board Member - Dad Life - he/him
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
3 books. My latest is GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, network state, crypto cartels.
Writing a book: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.”
The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Public sector agitator for good. Co-author @transform.wales
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. 🏴
She/her.
Trawsnewid gwasanaethau cyhoeddus ar gyfer Cymru fodern. Cynllun ar gyfer cyflawni cyn #Senedd2026.
Transforming public services for a modern Wales. A blueprint for delivery ahead of #Senedd2026.
https://transform.wales
MLA for Port Moody-Burquitlam, B.C. Minister of State for AI & New Technologies. Former Parliamentary Secretary for Technology, and former Port Moody City Councillor.
OLYMPICS / MLS / PWHL / Reporter and Broadcaster | Writing:
CBC, Toronto Star, Sports Illustrated, MLS, The Hockey News, Daily Hive | Host: Northern Fútbol Podcast
Host of the podcast\radio show Canadian History Ehx. Author of "Canada's Main Street: The Epic Story of The Trans-Canada Highway" Sharing Canada's history daily!
Author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT). Polisci prof. Contrarian. Lover of dogs, family outfit matching, and tinned fish.
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
The Hill Times is an influential, independently owned newspaper. We've covered Parliament Hill since 1989.
www.hilltimes.com
civictech.ca
We are a community of tech-minded folk making civic life better in Toronto.
Come and join our weekly online and in-person events with speakers, discussions and project breakouts!
Upcoming events: https://guild.host/civic-tech-toronto
We create digital services that break down barriers to democratic participation, equipping people to take action and drive meaningful change. Subscribe to our updates at http://eepurl.com/gOEVFj
Official Account of the Canadian Men's National Team 🇨🇦 | Compte officiel de l’Équipe nationale masculine du Canada 🇨🇦
Sociologist of #AI • University of Virginia Faculty • Series Editor University of California Press • Tech Editor Public Books • Fellow NYU IKP & UVA DTD • Host of Co-Opting AI Series • Director Sloane Lab • monasloane.org
Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Care, Tech, Culture, Inequality. Check out The Last Human Job re the "scaling up" of humane work @PrincetonUPress. Johns Hopkins sociologist
Canadian Soccer Statistical+Tactical Analysis🇨🇦⚽️
💻Web+Social Editor, OneSoccer
✍️CanPL(.)ca, The Third Sub
🎙️Northern Fútbol, The Third Sub
🪪NASR member |🎓TMU23 |🗣️EN/FR/ES
He/Him
https://linktr.ee/alexgangueruzic
Passionate about government working for people
Founder Rebel Alliance, Chairwoman GovDesign Foundation, 40 under 40 European Young Leader
Minister of Public Administration, Digital & Media, 42 Gov of Montenegro
Cofounder OI, ODI California State Gov
Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin.
Writer and radio host in NYC.
- Host, Techtonic on WFMU: https://techtonic.fm
- Tech criticism: https://creativegood.com/blog
- Newsletter: https://creativegood.com/newsletter
Encouraging better tech, and resisting Big Tech.
Government data, standards, the future of the gov’t innovation workforce, Seattle, surfing, murals, public health.
MLA for Vancouver-Fraserview + Minister of Citizens’ Services. Engaging, supporting, listening & collaborating!
Action research center studying and co-designing data-driven & participatory decisions #data #opendata #innovation #datacollaboratives #crowdlaw. Learn more at: thegovlab.org
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
The Civics of Technology (CoT) project aims to empower students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives. Find updates here or by subscribing to our newsletter at civicsoftechnology.org.
Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Professor, researcher, maker of things
~Book: Atlas of AI
~Installation: Calculating Empires
~NYT video: AI's Real Environmental Impact https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/ai-quartz-mining-hurricane-helene.html
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
Supporting the Vancouver Whitecaps since 1999
Journaliste politique/CBC At Issue/Les Coulisses du pouvoir et C est bien meilleur le matin-SRC/Good Talk-Sirius XM & YouTube
Premier of BC. Leader of the BC NDP. MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey. Husband and father of three.
For over 50 years, the School has produced an extraordinary range and volume of research that has shaped the evolving field of communication.
North America’s Trusted Source Of News
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebeaverton
Merch: https://the-beaverton.myshopify.com/
Former federal public servant and academic, NGOs, writer. Most recent book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge
Cities are life! Writing about Vancouver region urban issues, politics, housing + more for Globe and Mail mainly, BCBusiness, Vancouver mag, and a few more. Grand-daughter of Saskatchewan farmers, mom/step-mom to four millennials coping with housing market
I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit
Advancing public-facing, community-engaged research and interdisciplinary collaboration to address the climate crisis.
climatejustice.ubc.ca | linktr.ee/CCJ_UBC
Past Team Lead, Climate Emergency Unit; author of "A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency"; columnist w/ Canada's National Observer; former social justice think tank director
https://www.sethklein.ca
https://sethdklein.substack.com
bcpolicy.ca | We’re a progressive public policy research institute. We look at issues facing British Columbia and propose bold and achievable policy solutions that centre social, economic, environmental and racial justice. Join us!
Historian, author. Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS. Next: MUSKISM with Ben Tarnoff. Preorder here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 quinnslobodian.com
This is the official account of Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
Voyageurs Cup Champions 2015, 2022, 2023, 2024, & 2025 🏆 #VWFC
Single match tickets now on sale! 🎟️ https://bit.ly/2025SingleTicketsSocial
Fighting for better transit in Metro Vancouver! 🚌🚎🚞⛴️
https://movementyvr.ca
Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): https://shorturl.at/XcutG. Built https://www.weirdoldbookfinder.net/
*maybe not here quite so much, as I tend to my grief and growth*
Dr. Weeden. She/Her. Rural Futurist. Feminist. Curious/Furious. Place, power, policy. Obsessed with questions like "why?" and "so what?"
Social science and other distractions. Old posts get deleted pretty quick.
https://kieranhealy.org /
https://theordinalsociety.com
"End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 naomiklein.org
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W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.
posting about posts at new york magazine
A weekly radio show and podcast on all things media produced and distributed by WNYC Studios — onthemedia.org
Hosted by @brookegladstone.bsky.social & @micahloewinger.bsky.social
Podcaster - The Bridge, Host - SiriusXM, Author 4 best sellers, Filmmaker, Distinguished Fellow, U of T, Chancellor Emeritus MTA.ca, and Senior Counsel Spark *Advocacy
Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
Support Lawfare at https://www.lawfaremedia.org/support
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever. https://mastodon.social/@jamesbridle / jamesbridle.com
We're a non-profit organization making #cycling better in British Columbia through advocacy, education, research, consulting, and celebration. #UnGapTheMap
We are building options for the next economies.
https://darkmatterlabs.org/
